The Ultimate Guide to Speech Recognition in Windows 7

Published on January 21, 2011 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

From the Microsoft MVP who gave you The Complete Windows 7 Shortcuts eBook, comes another fantastic guide: The Ultimate Guide to Speech Recognition in Windows 7! for free!

Speech recognition The Ultimate Guide to Speech Recognition in Windows 7 released

Speech Recognition is a technology which is used for controlling computers using some voice commands and that is too accurate. Imagine you are using your computer without touching keyboard or mouse instead by giving commands verbally to do your basic computer tasks. This is easily possible if you are using a Windows 7 PC.

This excellent guide explains everything about a superb feature of Windows 7 which is called ‘Speech Recognition’. It is available in Control Panel and you can access it from there very easily.

The 28 page eBook is pretty exhaustive and covers topics like:

    * Preparing Computer to work with Speech Recognition
    * Connecting a microphone to your computer
    * Setting up Speech Recognition
    * Setting speech options
    * Working with Windows Speech Recognition
    * Dictating text using Speech Recognition
    * Controlling your Computer using Speech Recognition
    * Troubleshooting common Speech Recognition problems
    * Common commands in Speech Recognition
    * And more!

With Speech Recognition you can use your voice to control your computer. You can speak commands that the computer will respond to, and you can also dictate text to the computer which eliminates the requirement of typing the words in any text editor or word processing software.

Using Speech Recognition in Windows 7 will ultimately help you and increase your productivity by saving lots of time in performing certain common actions. Most of people find it hard to use voice commands for controlling their computer because they don’t know how to use them well.

In this eBook, Nitin Agarwal has tried his level best to pack all the information he came across and knows about Windows Speech Recognition. "I hope you find the eBook useful and enjoy using Speech Recognition to control your Windows 7 PC”, said the author Nitin.

The author of this eBook, Nitin Agarwal is a Microsoft MVP awardee in the Windows Desktop Experience category and an independent technology analyst for Windows IT Pro and other Microsoft products and blogs at Windows Lifestyle.com.

Download: The Ultimate Guide to Speech Recognition in Windows 7.

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Comments

Uvah

on Jan 21, 2011

Cool info Doc. Now all I gotta do is hook it up to my laptop and wait for it to tell me what to do. jk ... this type of info could be very useful with those who have difficulty typing.

DrJBHL

on Jan 21, 2011

That's part of it, Uvah. There are people in the Community who might be able to use this info to help in their computing tasks for a host of reasons.

k10w3

on Jan 21, 2011

Speech recognition....took me from making $60,000 a year down to $34,000.

DrJBHL

on Jan 21, 2011

Sorry, Karen... this is just for private use, and I was really trying to aim more for folks with disabilities....

Also as a solution for ZubaZ's "problem".

Forgiven?

Phoon

on Jan 21, 2011

Speech recognition....took me from making $60,000 a year down to $34,000.

It's only going to get worse in the transcription field too. Are you an independent transcriptionist?

Phoon

on Jan 21, 2011

Also as a solution for ZubaZ's "problem".

HA! They've not invented a device to deal with such onslaught of the English language yet!!

k10w3

on Jan 21, 2011

Phoon

reply 5

It's only going to get worse in the transcription field too. Are you an independent transcriptionist?

No, I'm an employee for a service. Fortunately the company I work for now has recognized a little bit of my leadership qualities, and I'm also working the customer service end of the business on Sundays and Mondays while I'm transcribing, for which I get an extra $50, plus the benefit of being able to add "lead transcriptionist" to my job resume.

If I didn't need a food permit to break into the field, I'm really loving cake decorating, which is a hobby I just started recently. Here's my last 2 projects:

Phoon

on Jan 21, 2011

so what is stopping you from getting a food permit??

k10w3

on Jan 21, 2011

Phoon

reply 8

so what is stopping you from getting a food permit??

I have indoor pets.

k10w3

on Jan 21, 2011

DrJBHL

reply 4

Sorry, Karen... this is just for private use, and I was really trying to aim more for folks with disabilities....

Also as a solution for ZubaZ's "problem".

Forgiven?

ZubaZ's problem could be solved with the auto-correct feature used in most word expanders. Speech rec is only a solution if the data being input is correct -- the computer can't "know what you meant" and transcribe what you meant to say, as opposed to what you actually said...hence the need for editors (who don't get paid well, because they're simply word janitors). Before speech rec, editors were well paid because their job wasn't cleaning up the mess the computer made; their job was quality control done on a microscopic scale.

No need to ask for forgiveness, Seth. It's progress -- I can't really bitch about the damage speech rec has caused me personally, while owning a cell phone and being able to type on a computer, rather than a manual typewriter, without making myself into a huge hypocrite.

I'll find some way to make ends meet if/when the whole field disappears -- I'm resourceful.

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